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Which children's books give you a lump in your throat?

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Orinoco · 03/05/2006 20:42

I've just been reading "Can't you sleep, Little Bear" to dd's and I nearly cried! Silly sentimental moment about giving your children the moon!

What innocuous(sp!) children's books have had you blubbing?

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bunny3 · 03/05/2006 23:01

me too "I'll love you forever" I always choke up before finsihing it. Ds is most confusedby my mixed messages. I love that book.

NotAnOtter · 03/05/2006 22:58

TOP THIS!!!!!!!!

I bought my house cos it reminds me of Alfie and Annie Rose's

NO SERIOUSLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hana · 03/05/2006 22:57

I'll love you forever
can never finish reading it without crying

blueteddy · 03/05/2006 22:57

Guess how much I love you, kind of gets me too!

gladbag · 03/05/2006 22:56

I'll Always Love You by Hans Wilhelm, which is a story about a little boy and his dog, and what happens when the dog gets old and fat and ill. I had it in my classroom and really struggled when I read it to the class, every time Blush

and Charlotte's Web...

(and when I was very pregnant, and teaching a Reception class, just about every book I ever read to them that was vaguely about love or babies or kindness or sadness or forgiveness or loneliness or anything really, had me welling up, and don't get me started on Guess How Much I Love You - those poor children...)

blueteddy · 03/05/2006 22:56

Oh that love you forever one really made me cry.
It was being read to the children in the school I work in, thankfully not by me, as I was in floods of tears by the end of it!

cheeseypeas · 03/05/2006 22:55

What a fantastic thread.

Janet & Alan Alberg's Peepo

It's the last page that gets me. The mum dad and baby are all looking in a big mirror. Its such a familiar scene, but in this book it's set in the war and the dad is wearing a soliders uniform. Maybe I'm just daft, but it makes me think of all the dads that didn't come back and I think that's possibly an undertone in this beautiful, simple book.

Freddiecat · 03/05/2006 22:54

Annie Rose is my Little Sister by Shirley Hughes

My two are at about the same ages as Alfie and Annie Rose and the books are just lovely.

Flamesparrow · 03/05/2006 22:54

Now crying over that Rummum :(

Not really a book, but DD loves me singing puff the magic dragon, and I always get very choked up at the end :(

HunKeRMunKeR · 03/05/2006 22:54

Dogger and Charlotte's Web - had that read to me in the library when I was 4 and choked back tears then!

Tommy · 03/05/2006 22:53

The Railway Children when the Dad comes home and Bobbie says "My Daddy, oh my Daddy"... can't read it without crying

Flamesparrow · 03/05/2006 22:51

Dogger :(

I refuse to read the Mog dying one - I just saw the cover and got choked up Blush

rummum · 03/05/2006 22:51

RICKMAN.... I love that book too...

I got this from his website...

Love You Forever started as a song.

"I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always,
as long as I'm living
my baby you'll be."
"I made that up after my wife and I had two babies born dead. The song was my song to my dead babies. For a long time I had it in my head and I couldn't even sing it because every time I tried to sing it I cried. It was very strange having a song in my head that I couldn't sing".

Knowing why he wrote the song I sob even more at the end....

glasgowgal · 03/05/2006 22:47

Guess how much I love you

cataloguequeen · 03/05/2006 22:42

No Matter What...'love,like starlight never dies' blub

and Charlotte's Web.

suejonez · 03/05/2006 22:42

Does Little Women count as a childrens book? The bit where Beth dies, sniff, gulp...

Dannie · 03/05/2006 22:41

It's so sad at the end of the Winnie the Pooh books when Christopher Robin can't play with Pooh any more because he's going to boarding school. I had no idea until I read them to DS1 Sad.

suejonez · 03/05/2006 22:41

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orphan bird adopted a mummy bear - can't get through it without sobbing (can you tell I'm in the process of adopting!!)

Crackle · 03/05/2006 22:41

Cod. I can't believe that you are laughing at my Mog bawling.[/shirty]

If I recall correctly, it started with me excitedly opening the book and getting the children's interest. I soon started making odd, gulping noises and then progressed to full body shuddering.Blush I may have had a long string of snot.

Bloody kids.

:)

marthamoo · 03/05/2006 22:33

Goodbye Mog (have avoided it like the plague after crying in Waterstone's when I picked it up to have a look at it and last time we went to the ILs, Grandma had bought it for ds2 and I had to read it to him...)

And Owl Babies.

cod · 03/05/2006 22:28

lol

Crackle · 03/05/2006 22:27

I was in WHSmith a few years ago with the boys (when they were toddlers) when I found the Mog dies book. I was hugely excited to see a new Mog book and knelt down with it to the side of their buggy to show them the pictures of their favourite cat.

I very quickly realised that Mog had died and started bawling like a loony. This started the boys off. A nice lady took the book away and said that I wasn't the first.

Blush
collision · 03/05/2006 22:11

I got a lovely book for ds out of the library and it was about a grandpa and his grandson. We were reading it together and it was so sweet until i realised that grandpa was going to die!! It was awful. DS kept looking at me and I couldnt keep on reading it as it would have upset him too much as his Grandpa isnt about to die!

I had to change the ending and ds was a bit confused as it obviously didnt make sense.

It was only later that I read the back of the book and it said it was an introduction to death for younger readers!! I felt such a fool! Blush

cece · 03/05/2006 22:08

I love you this much?

cece · 03/05/2006 22:08

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